Little Belt Bridge
General Information
Project Type
| Structure: |
Suspension bridge |
|---|---|
| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Equipment: |
Structurae Plus |
Location
| Location: |
Middelfart, South Denmark, Denmark |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 55° 31' 7.29" N 9° 44' 57.67" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 600 m | |
| width | 31.2 m | |
| total length | 1 700 m | |
| span lengths | 9 × 31 m - 240.00 m - 600.00 m - 240.00 m - 11 × 31 m | |
| clearance | 42 m | |
| on-axis distance between the main cables | 28.1 m | |
| deck | deck depth | 3.00 m |
| pylons | girder depth | 4.50 m |
| height from foundation level | 112.2 m |
Quantities
| cables | structural steel | 4 100 t |
| deck | structural steel | 12 200 t |
| overall structure | structural steel | 17 900 t |
| suspenders | structural steel | 200 t |
Materials
| deck |
steel
|
|---|---|
| pylons |
prestressed concrete
reinforced concrete |
Products, Services & Reports
Modular Expansion Joints can be constructed for any movements, from about 100 mm up to 2,000 mm and more. They allow movements in all 3 directions ...
[more]Participants
Design
- Christen Ostenfeld (designer)
- W. Jonson (designer)
Steel construction
Concrete construction
Cable steel supplier
Renovation (2002-2003)
Expansion joints
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2017): 09.15: Fatigue life prediction of New Little Belt Bridge steel deck under a cracked pavement section: Comparison between a monitoring-based and a FE modelling approaches. In: ce/papers, v. 1, n. 2-3 (September 2017), pp. 2471-2480.
- (2002): Bridges - Ponts - Brücken. Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), pp. 42-45.
- (2013): Die Brücke über den Kleinen Belt. In: Stahlbau, v. 82, n. 10 (October 2013), pp. 742-749.
- (2007): Design for movements in bridges. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007, pp. 24-27.
- (2014): Fire on the New Little Belt Bridge. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014, pp. 2729-2736.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20004539 - Published on:
17/08/2002 - Last updated on:
21/04/2016